The results of the 2009 Skyscraper Competition have just been announced by eVolo. The winners are, in first place, Kyu Ho Chun, Kenta Fukunishi, and Jae Young Lee. In second place, Nicola Marchi and Adelaide Marchi. And in third place, Eric Vergne. They were also 15 special mentions. 40 projects will be published in eVolo Magazine.
For the complete information, go to the official website of eVolo.
I never can get enough of Volume. This issue is loaded with provocative articles that stimulate discussion about a pressing reality, the dramatic demographic shift in the age of human populations. Throughout this issue there are articles like Martti…
“The representation of creative ideas is of primary importance within any design-based discipline, and is particularly relevant in architecture where we often do not get to see the finished results, i.e. the building, until the very end of the…
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do not believe in god, but thank´s god for the CRISIS! it is sure that architecture needs it, this competition is just a wonderfull proof of it…
Soo, i looked at the evolo website. And i have to say i really don’t understand where that’s going. What are they trying to prove? The ‘work’ in there is a disgrace. Yes, they can make pretty images – are those buildings? Doubt it. Yes, they have spent months working in maya and rhino pulling out those shapes from their scripts and some other dark and obscure places – will they ever get built or even taken seriously by someone other than your looser-studio-professor-who-encourages-this? Doubt it. C’mon! let’s get serious!
That skyscraper in machu picchu is just absurd. but even more absurd is the fact that architecture faculties promote this kind of nonsense.
Ridiculous…
i think it is great. we need big, crazy, idea driven ideas…elements can be expanded upon and incorporated in future work. very good, kudos
I am getting so sick and tired of this kind of so-called “architecture”. It is just terriable. I do however enjoy 0244, which responds very well to our current problems. But anyway, this computer generated architecture crap need to stop, and this evolo competition isn’t helping a bit. What an abosolute waste of time.
For an exercise… well done.
For the development of architectura a lack of humility that worries me.
i have a BIG crazy idea for the next competition http://www.linkmesh.com/imagenes/temas/ovnis/a_alien_enojado.jpg
I’d really like the magia’s idea
Cool, Magias!!! Can wait to see it get built
agree with above first two comments, but hey have a second look at…
http://www.evolo-arch.com/dskyn.html
Nothing wrong with a little fun. But the ideas never seem to go beyond highly formalistic, singular objects. None of the latest 2009 submissions really challenge the idea of a skyscraper in terms of planning the city or linking into existing infrastructures.
The first two years of this competition (06, 07) are still the most interesting to me… after that the overall conversation goes into “repeat” mode and gets boring.
I agree with claude, Project 0463 is one of best among the finalists in terms of Practice and Theory combined. Well done!
At least these entries are trying to push the notion of what it means to make architecture. When have we ever gotten anywhere as a profession by repeating the same mistakes over and over again?
I always read negative reviews of projects like these on the web and I’m starting to suspect that the majority of the naysayers are people who are intimidated by ‘scripting’ and can’t figure out how to do it themselves.
These projects-and renderings- are beautiful. Well done!
well…
somebody here knows about “exploring new ideas” mean?
u forgotten how the modern architecture began, and theii critics, forgotten how the urbanism begun, with utopics ideas, the archigram…
this si just the prelude of somethings, u dont need to build these things, only extract good ideas for real….
As an architect with more than 20 years of experience I never stop being shocked and appalled each and every time I analize one of these theoretical and useless exercises of creative vanity.
Is this the role of an architect in an extended global crisis era even at exercise proposal level?
Are here the concepts of future architecture?
Is there any feeling of what’s going on in the world and here in America with tent camps developing in every corner instead of these housing and public futilities?
Why currently anybody will finance this madness?
Even at theoretical stage why spend time on something that everybody knows is not buildable?
These things are getting so boring that the proposal that twists more the structure and gets closer to an allien dream of outerspace will sure win the competition. I can’t see in any of these exercises the required interpretation of the limits that allow the current conceptual need of “venustas, firmitas, utilitas”.
I agree that most of these are a bit absurd and merely pretty pictures. After reading the briefs, 0575 is quite interesting. The project retains believability formally, and asserts an interesting stance about the economic reality of architecture being pushed formally.
well, for people who say these things never get built, the chinese and some in the middle east are building them, so nothing is utopic or imposible anymore, yes theres a global economic crisis & blah blah blah, but it wont last forever, so keep your negative comments to yourselves you simple minded morons.